A long and winding road to definable sets

We survey the development of o-minimal structures from a geometric point of view and compare them with subanalytic sets insisting on the differences. The idea is to show the long way from semi-analytic to definable sets, from normal partitions to cell decompositions. Some recent results are discussed in the last section

Medial axis and singularities

We correct one erroneous statement made in our recent paper "Medial axis and singularities".Comment: Some minor misprints are corrected and one final remark is adde

Positive solutions for nonlinear singular elliptic equations of p-Laplacian type with dependence on the gradient

In this paper, we study a nonlinear Dirichlet problem of p-Laplacian type with combined effects of nonlinear singular and convection terms. An existence theorem for positive solutions is established as well as the compactness of solution set. Our approach is based on Leray-Schauder alternative principle, method of sub-supersolution, nonlinear regularity, truncation techniques, and set-valued analysis

Control problems for systems described by hemivariational inequalities

The paper considers some control problems for the systems described by the evolution, as well as the stationary hemivariational inequalities (HVIs for short). First, basing on surjectivity theorems for pseudo-monotone operators we formulate some existence results for the solutions of the HVIs and investigate some properties of the solution set (like sensitivity; i.e. its dependence on data and operators). Next we quote some existence theorems for optimal solutions for various classes of optimal control like distributed control (e.g. Bolza problem), identification of parameters, or optimal shape design for systems described by HVIs. Finally, we discuss some common features in getting the existence of optimal solutions as well as some "well-posedness" problems

Asymptotic behaviour of minima to a class of optimization problems for differential inclusions

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